The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken
 - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Haiku - Masahide & Issa

The barn’s burnt down
But now I can see
The moon above.

- Masahide (1657-1723)

ISSA'S COMPOSITIONS

"Yare utsuna hae ga te o suru ashi o suru."

Look, don't kill that fly!
It is making a prayer to you by
FOLDING its hands and feet.-


"Harukaze ya,
ushi ni hikarete,
zenkooji."

A spring-time breeze
And the tug of my cow led me to
Zenkoji
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"Waga hoshi wa
doko ni tabine ya
ama-no-gawa."

Quietness
At the bottom of the lake,
The crest of the clouds